Genus Glyphea Meyer, 1835

TYPE SPECIES. — Palinurus regleyanus Desmarest, 1822, by monotypy.

DIAGNOSIS (by Charbonnier et al. 2013). — Subcylindrical carapace, laterally compressed; short pointed rostrum, spineless, straight or slightly downward-inclined; cephalic region with longitudinal spiny carinae; very deep cervical groove, steeply inclined, ventrally joined to antennal groove, delimiting narrow cephalic region; ventral margin of antennal-pterygostomial region strongly concave; antennal groove strongly rounded ventrally, forming raised antennal lobe; antennal groove joined with carinate ventral margin of cephalic region; deep gastro-orbital groove joined to cervical groove at level of gastro-orbital carina, with two transverse divergent branches strongly incurved, delimiting two tuberculated gastro-orbital lobes; deep postcervical groove joined dorsally, medially (laterocardiac groove) and ventrally to branchiocardiac groove, forming two elongate lobes separated by laterocardiac groove; straight cardiac groove, upward-inclined and joined posteriorly to postcervical groove and anteriorly to dorsal margin; deep intercervical groove progressively shallow from postcervical to cervical grooves; deep, straight branchiocardiac groove, strongly inclined, joined to dorsal margin of carapace; deep hepatic groove, convex ventrally at intersection with branchiocardiac groove and straight at intersection with antennal groove; inflated adductor muscle insertion area; deep, sinuous inferior groove, joined to hepatic groove; subchelate P1-P4; achelate P5; uropodal exopod with diaeresis.